Acronym NA
Category
Fisheries
Title Fartøyutvikling - vurdering av regelverk mhp driftfsøkonomi og sikkerhet - Vessel development - assessment of regulations regarding operating finances and safety Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Halvard L. Aasjord Coordinator email halvard.aasjord@sintef.no
Coordinator institution
SINTEF-SFH - SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2002 End year 2003 Funding (€) € NA Website https://www.fhf.no/prosjekter/prosjektbasen/332012/ Summary The fisheries authorities have introduced a set of regulations to control catch capacity in different fleet groups. At the same time, the maritime authorities must maintain control over the safety of vessels and personnel through other regulations that are increasingly adapted to international ones conventions. In addition, increasingly efficient vessel and gear technology is being introduced in the fishing fleet. This further increases the fishing efficiency of the fishery. A fishing boat owner must comply with various laws and regulations and try his best to optimize their vessel in relation to given rights and a planned operating plan. In several fisheries are however, there are limits that prevent the choice of good solutions. The boat can thus be partially optimal in one area, while other important features come out poorly. In the coastal fleet, there are many length limits, but fewer limits for tonnage, which means that the boats become short and lumpy. This applies to e.g. border of Loa = 35 feet (10.67 meters), Loa = 15 meters and limit Loa = 70 feet (21.34 meters), as well as the limit of 90 feet (27.45 and 28 meters). Here there are no tonnage limits and the boats can be built very heavily to achieve great load capacity and stability. This again affects the speed characteristics and in some cases also seaworthiness. If there are problems with these boats, there will often be obstacles to be able to extend the boats, and thereby achieve i.a. better speed and seaworthiness. Overall, there will be a desire to allow upgrading of boats, so that these will be larger (longer) and thereby far better m.h.p. operating economy and security. However, this contributes to the increase of catch efficiency which in turn must result in fewer units in a fleet group. Introduction of a so-called unit quota scheme will then make it easier and more attractive to have simpler regulations for upgrading of certain border boats (paragraph boats). If many of the largest coastal fishing boats (with combination operation) in the group 21-28 meters allowed to be upgraded (extended), the traditional boundary between the coastal and deep-sea fishing fleet will be more blurred. The bankline fleet belongs to the conventional group, but is mainly to be reckoned with deep-sea fishing boats where some have a factory on board for processing the catch. Also some larger modern coastal fishing boats refine on board and freeze the catch. Regulation of catch capacity for vessels with different technical limitations may alternatively restrictions are made on fishing grounds as a catch per trip (trip scheme). If the boat is allowed to load 150 tons, it may not matter if it is 70 or 90 feet long. The length limits will then follow them safety limits that the maritime authorities will practice in the future, e.g. 10.57 meters (35 feet), 15 meters (49 feet), 24 meters line length (IMO) or 45 meter line length (IMO). For the maritime authorities, it would be desirable for them to make a further adaptation to EU regulations. For some fisheries, vessel technical dimensions have been chosen as parameters for regulation and limitation of catch capacity and catch capacity of individual vessels: - Rutton tonnage and vessel length in trawling; -Vessel length and cargo volume in purse seine fishing. The fisheries authorities have for many years used vessel technical dimensions because they are easily accessible, measurable and easy to manage when it comes to boundaries between a small boat defined as license-free and a large boat that must have a license for e.g. shrimp trawl or cod trawl.
Keywords
Human health;
Fishing technology;
Vessel technology;
Engineering;
Marine Region
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Norwegian Sea (27.IIa)
42
Barents Sea (27.I)
13
Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
14
Skagerrak, Kattegat (27.IIIa)
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